Tsintaosaurini

Tsintaosaurini

Tsintaosaurini

Extinct tribe of dinosaurs


Tsintaosaurini is a tribe of basal lambeosaurine hadrosaurs native to Eurasia. It is thought to contains the genera Tsintaosaurus (from China), Pararhabdodon (from Spain) and Koutalisaurus (also from Spain),[1] though some studies have questioned its existence as a natural grouping.[2]

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Classification

Tsintaosaurini is part of the family Hadrosauridae, specifically the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.[2][3] The existence of a tsintaosaur clade of lambeosaurines was first recognized by palaeontologists Albert Prieto-Márquez and Johnathan R. Wagner, who in 2009 published a paper recognizing a phylogenetic relationship between Tsintaosaurus and Pararhabdodon based both on shared anatomical traits and a phylogenetic analysis.[4] A 2013 study by Prieto-Márquez corroborated the existence of this grouping, and coined the tribe Tsintaosaurini to refer to it. The type genus is Tsintaosaurus, and it was defined as the smallest clade containing Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus and Pararhabdodon isonensis.[3] Several studies since have corroborated the existence of the clade,[2][5][6] though some others have failed to recover it, instead finding the two genera in a polytomy of basal lambeosaurs.[2][7][8] A 2021 paper by Daniel Madzia and other ornithischian researchers, focused on a revising ornithischian nomenclature and converting existing group names into Phylocode-compliant clades, re-formalized the coining of Tsintaosaurini and revised its definition to be the most inclusive group including T. spinorhinus and P. isonensis, but not Aralosaurus tuberiferus, Lambeosaurus lambei, or Parasaurolophus walkeri.[2] The following cladogram shows the results of a phylogenetic analysis of hadrosaur relationships from a 2022 study:[9]

Hadrosauridae

A 2020 study by Nick Longrich and colleagues describing the genus Ajnabia found Pararhabdodon to be part a monophyletic clade of European lambeosaurs, termed Arenysaurini, rather than a relative of Tsintaosaurus, thereby making the tribe an inapplicable polyphyletic grouping. The cladogram from their study's phylogenetic analysis is shown below:[2][10]

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References

  1. Prieto-Márquez, Albert; Dalla Vecchia, Fabio M.; Gaete, Rodrigo; Galobart, Àngel (2013). "Diversity, Relationships, and Biogeography of the Lambeosaurine Dinosaurs from the European Archipelago, with Description of the New Aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis". PLOS ONE. 8 (7): e69835. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...869835P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069835. PMC 3724916. PMID 23922815.
  2. Madzia, D.; Arbour, V.M.; Boyd, C.A.; Farke, A.A.; Cruzado-Caballero, P.; Evans, D.C. (2021). "The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs". PeerJ. 9: e12362. doi:10.7717/peerj.12362. PMC 8667728. PMID 34966571.
  3. McDonald, A. T.; Wolfe, D. G.; Freedman Fowler, E. A.; Gates, T. A. (2021). "A new brachylophosaurin (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico". PeerJ. 9: e11084. doi:10.7717/peerj.11084. PMC 8020878. PMID 33859873.
  4. Prieto-Márquez, Albert; Fondevilla, Víctor; Sellés, Albert G.; Wagner, Jonathan R.; Galobart, Àngel (2018). "Adynomosaurus arcanus, a new lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Ibero-Armorican Island of the European Archipelago". Cretaceous Research. 96: 19–37. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.12.002. S2CID 134582286.
  5. Longrich, Nicholas R.; Suberbiola, Xabier Pereda; Pyron, R. Alexander; Jalil, Nour-Eddine (2020). "The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography". Cretaceous Research. 120: 104678. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104678. S2CID 228807024.



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